Is the Food Ordinance old wine in new bottle?

The government’s Food Security Ordinance, promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday, is a big social welfare initiative as it guarantees legal right to food for the first time. A closer look on some of the provisions of the Ordinance and the existing targeted public distribution system (TPDS), however, reveals that apart from the legal entitlement...

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